Dictionary Entry
fossa
fossa is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
- 2noun
largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets
- 3noun
monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets
- 4noun
a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
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